70 THE BOTANY OF BERMUDA. 



be aroused to any adequate sense of the duty of extirpating it, there 

 cannot be a doubt of the serious nuisance it must soon become. It is a 

 plant which is capable of deriving nourishment from the poorest soil, 

 and sends its long-tap root to a distance of many feet. It flowers and 

 ripens seed nearly all the year around. Every seed seems to germinate. 

 The writer has pulled out 300 seedlings from a space of one square 

 yard. The ground at length becomes so full of them as to destroy all 

 other vegetation. 



Acacia mocracantha, Humb. Bonpl. 



Self-sprung from some West Indian soil at Mount Langton in 1874. It 

 was suitably transplanted, and became a flourishing young tree, easily 

 recognized b}' its fine foliage and very minute leaflets. 



A. Arahicay Willd. Gum Arabic; Yellow mimosa 

 A yellow flowering acacia, not uncommonn in gardens. 



A. cygnoriim^ Meissn. 



Was raised from seed received from West Australia, and flowered 

 for a year or two at Mount Langton, but proved unable to stand the 

 high winds. 



A. LebbeJc, Willd. Black ebony 



Very fine trees are to be seen at Peniston's, Smith's Parish, the 

 largest 06 inches round, but it is not uncommon elsewhere. Flowers in 

 July. It loses its leaves in winter. Originally from the east; i)robably 

 introduced from the West Indies in the last century. {Albizzia Lebbelc, 

 Benth.) 



Inr/a vera, Willd. 



Tried at Mount Langton, from the West Indies. The plant languished 

 for three or four years, but never made healthy growth. 



XXXIX.— ROSACEJE. 



ChrysobaJanus pellocarpus, Mey. Pork-fat apple. 



In Mrs. Eeed's and Mr. H. Trimingham's gardens. Flowers in July. 

 Bears a purj^le fruit the size of a plum, the taste of which is very well 

 described by its local or West Indian name. 



Fhotinia arbutifolia, Lindl. 



This Califoruian shrub was sent from Cambridge, Mass., in 1874, and 

 was doing pretty well in 1S77. 



